SIT DOWN, HAVE A DRINK, RELAX.

First Tuesday in November

It was ordained that, on the first Tuesday of this November, a couple of dozen hexapods would chase each other round a track for about 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This, apparently, is cause for much celebration and the wearing of outfits.

Leave.EU and Arron Banks’s Eldon Insurance have been fined £60,000 each for serious breaches of the privacy and electronic communications regulations 2003 (PECR), the law which governs electronic marketing, over adverts sent to 2 million Leave.EU subscribers for Eldon’s insurance products, without consent, the report says.

A separate £15,000 fine has been levied against Leave.EU for another breach of email regulations in the opposite direction, sending 300,000 emails to Eldon customers with a Leave.EU newsletter.

Both fines are currently at the “notice of intent” stage, giving Banks’ organisations time to appeal or file countering evidence.

This lady drove 45 minutes to talk to the Prime Minister at his “politics in the pub” in Rockhampton only to find his politics in the pub is a private invitation only event. Huge difference to @billshortenmp many Town Halls in Rocky for entire community! #Auspol#ScoMoExpresspic.twitter.com/o6Km6d3I5P

I’m still baffled as to why Morrison would be so keen on differentiating his ‘personality’ from that of Turnbull. Turnbull’s personal ratings were the only thing holding him up, and it certainly wasn’t that turning the electorate off him. The party dragged him down. Morrison bouncing around like a jackass pretending to be an ocker just makes everything seem that much more insincere. Now we’ve got a government whose policies we hate being led by a man we don’t much like pretending to be something we like even less.

Shorten is invisible to the MSM because they deliberately ignore him. Our news coverage is wall to wall government. StuntMo gets a headline every time he opens his mouth, Shorten makes an impassioned speech or spends a few hours at yet another town hall meeting and the media look the other way.

Labor pressers are ignored. Labor speeches in parliament get no coverage. Labor policies are rarely mentioned and if they are it’s usually in a “where’s the money coming from” way. StuntMo, though, can promise half a billion there, a few million there, ignoring the parliamentary requirement of accounting for all proposed new spending, and the MSM will fall about in adoration. They never ask HIM how he intends to pay for his lavish, profligate promises.

The MSM barely managed a few words of criticism when StuntMo decided to rob the NDIS to pay for his drought brainfart, a scheme that won’t begin until 2020. The MSM barely mentioned the proposed start. You had to search to find it. They allowed their readers/listeners/viewers to believe “something” was being done immediately.

We get this sort of deliberate omission of information all the time now when journalists write or talk about the government’s latest brainfart. . Facts are left out, articles are so poorly written you struggle to work out what they are actually about, false impressions are given in the hope the government will score some voter approval. While all this goes on Labor, and especially Shorten, are treated as if they were a joke. Every single article about a new poll will make a prominent comment about Shorten being “unpopular” while mostly ignoring Labor’s election-winning position, one they have maintained in every poll since August 2016.

Yesterday, in her article/interpretation of the latest Essential results Murpharoo admitted Labor’s result “would give Bill Shorten an easy election win”. FFS Ms Murphy! Labor has been in an easy election win position for a couple of years now, and you never noticed?

You understand. We’ve talked about this deliberate tactic by the MSM many times here.

Meanwhile all we get from the same MSM is dark mutterings about Facebook taking over the election campaign. Once again they deliberately mislead us by whipping up some unnecessary fear and loathing. The Facebook technique (whatever it really is) won’t work in Australia because we have compulsory voting, we don’t need to be persuaded to get off our bums and vote.

Labor, uses Facebook well. All Shorten’s town hall meetings are shown live (the sound is sometimes dreadful) and then are accessible as a video. Labor MPs make excellent use of their Facebook pages.Maybe that’s what all the fear and loathing is about – Labor uses social media well, so let’s destroy an avenue of communication that provides what the MSM won’t, fair coverage of Labor.

They’ve been doing it since 2009. I’ve given up being frustrated. Seeing Labor in front in the polls for so long has kept me calmish. Most people don’t care and obviously take enough in to know who is offering the better policies even if they don’t understand or follow closely.

So we finally get a US ambassador, after two years of being ignored. We get a devout Republican – well, of course.

Fairfax gushes about this 70 year old chap, mentioning his age twice, for some reason, and to back up their grovelling asks only two people for a comment, Marise Payne and the chap in charge of the very right wing Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Of course they are going to greet this announcement warmly.

No comment included from Penny Wong, who will soon find herself dealing with this man as our new Minister for Foreign Affairs. (Unless she gets a new portfolio when Labor returns to government, of course.)

I’d say definitely not sober, I think substances other than alcohol are involved.

Clever!Serious question though, Michael. Who are the people behind the PM's new image? Who comes up with these photo ops, day after day, these youtube homilies? Have they been with him a long time? Are they quite . . . sober?#auspolhttps://t.co/n5WW8QYBcD

Barnaby Joyce’s preselection for New England in doubt
BARNABY Joyce is facing an ugly internal battle to keep his place in parliament, with his extramarital affair haunting him.
BARNABY Joyce is facing an ugly internal battle to run for the Nationals at the next election, with some party members refusing to endorse his candidacy.

The former deputy prime minister and National Party leader has applied to recontest his northern NSW seat of New England.

But an eight-member selection committee has reached a deadlock and is unable to unanimously support his candidacy, Sky News reported this morning.

At least two members are holding out, fearing Mr Joyce could have “more skeletons in the closet” and that his paperwork might not be correct.

Last time Mr Joyce stood for the seat, in 2016, he failed to disclose his affair with former staffer Vikki Campion or the fact she was pregnant with his child